David Spear

David Spear (born 23 November 1953 in Newark, New Jersey, USA) is a composer and conductor. He began his career orchestrating many film scores for Elmer Bernstein including Animal House (1978), Airplane! (1980), Heavy Metal (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and Ghostbusters (1984). He composed the score for films including Exterminator 2 (1984), No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987), and Pentathlon (1994).

The soundtrack to No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder was released on CD as a limited edition of 500 units in December 2021. The first 50 copies ordered from Buysoundtrax.com were signed by David. I received my signed copy in February 2022.

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Sven-Ole Thorsen

Sven-Ole Thorsen (born 24 September 1944) is a Danish actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Thorsen won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983.

Sven-Ole has appeared in many Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (in credited and uncredited roles): Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan the Destroyer (1984), Red Sonja (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Predator (1987), The Running Man (1987), Red Heat (1988), Twins (1988), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Last Action Hero (1993), Eraser (1996), End of Days (1999), and Collateral Damage (2002). He also did stunts in Red Sonja (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Eraser (1996), Jingle All The Way (1996), Batman & Robin (1997), and End of Days (1999).

Other credits (acting and stunts) include Ghostbuster II (1989), Lethal Weapon (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Nowhere to Run (1993), Hard Target (1993), On Deadly Ground (1994), Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998), The 13th Warrior (1999), Gladiator (2000), and The Sum of All Fears (2002).

I pre-ordered Sven's autograph from Evolve Events Private Signings in May 2021. I received the signed Running Man photos below many months later in 2022. Apparently one autograph got lost in the mail and I received two as a replacement.

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Jennifer Runyon

Jennifer Runyon (born 1 April 1960 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; died 6 March 2026) was an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the slasher film To All a Goodnight (1980), and went on to have supporting roles in the comedies Up the Creek (1984) and Ghostbusters (1984). She also had a lead role as Gwendolyn Pierce in the 1984 sitcom Charles in Charge during its first season. In 1988, she portrayed Cindy Brady in the television film A Very Brady Christmas.

I met Laura at Ecto-Con Glasgow, a convention dedicated solely to Ghostbusters, on 7th May 2022. She signed my Ghostbusters 4k UHD sleeve.

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Laura Summer

Laura Summer (born 5 November 1965 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actress. voice actress and producer. Her credits include the voice of Janine Melnitz in the cartoon television series The Real Ghostbusters (1986-87), a small part ('receptionis') in the comedy She's Out of Control (1989) and the role of Judy in the slasher flick Girls Nite Out (1982).

I met Laura at Ecto-Con Glasgow, a convention dedicated solely to Ghostbusters, on 7th May 2022. She signed an 8x10 from The Real Ghostbusters for me. She also had a region 1 dvd of She's Out of Control, a film that was not released on dvd in region 2. It received terrible reviews when it was first released in theatres but I have fond memories of watching it as a teenager.

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On-stage interview at Ecto-Con

Christopher Neame

Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947 in London, England) is an English actor now living in the United States. I know him for his roles in Steel Dawn (1987), D.O.A. (1988), Licence to Kill (1989), Ghostbusters II (1989), Hellbound (1994) and Species III (2004).

I met Christopher at Autographica 20 in Heathrow in April 2014.

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Ernie Hudson

Earnest Lee Hudson (born 17 December 1945 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA) is an American character actor. He has appeared in dozens of film and television roles throughout his career, but is perhaps best known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters (1984) and its 1989 sequel, Sergeant Darryl Albrecht in The Crow (1994), and Warden Leo Glynn in the HBO series Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995) and Miss Congeniality (2000). He had a cameo in the remake of Ghostbusters (2016) and will reprise his role as Winston in the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2020).

I met Ernie at Collectormania Glasgow in August 2008.

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Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Erskine Parker Jr. (born 1 May 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for writing and performing the theme song to the 1984 movie Ghostbusters, for his solo music, and for performing with his band, Raydio, and with Barry White. I met Ray at Comic Con Scotland in Edinburgh in November 2018, which was his first appearance at a convention.

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